Princelings

The Princelings is a faction of the Communist Party of China descended from prominent and influential senior communist officials in China. The faction members were accused of being beneficiaries of nepotism and cronyism, hence their royal nicknames. The princelings were descended from men such as the "Eight Elders" (Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yun, Li Xiannian, Peng Zhen, Yang Shangkun, Bo Yibo, Wang Zhen, and Song Renqiong), Wan Li, Deng Yingchao, and Xi Zhongxun, with Xi Zhongxun's son Xi Jinping and Bo Yibo's son Bo Xilai being prominent Princelings. After 1989, the power of the Princelings was reduced due to the rise of a new wealthy class with the start of an economic boom in China, public dissatisfaction with the Princelings' plague of corruption and cronyism, and resentment from the public. The party was rivals with the populist Tuanpai faction.